On 6/21/05, Ahmed Abdel-Aliem <me2resh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > hi > i installed Mplayer rpms from http://rpm.pbone.net/ and all required > rpms for it, it is installed successfully, but when i play any movie i > get this error > ¨ Erro opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device ¨ > can anyone help me with this problem and tell me what may cause it plz ? > anyhelp would be appreciated Does it work if you specify a video out device on the command line: mplayer -vo xv {file} If so, put "vo=xv" in your ~/.mplayer/config file. -- Ben Steeves _ bcs@xxxxxxxxxx The ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) ben.steeves@xxxxxxxxx against HTML e-mail X GPG ID: 0xB3EBF1D9 http://www.metacon.ca/bcs / \ Yahoo Messenger: ben_steeves
